Teachers note
I gave a theme to my students -‘Together towards tomorrow’.While opting the theme each students had to come up with an idea to address the history of the popular resistance movements among the marginal communities. India, as a country, has long living resistance movements from the corner of the societies around the definition of environment, Land, Livelihood, Basic Human Rights and the entire idea about human developments. The idea was to readdress the struggles learning through each regions own traditional local Art forms.
Each student has taken a particular local and traditional art form to address the particular crisis of that region and their spirit of resistance.
They wanted to highlight how folks of different region dealing with the crisis as a united movement. What they discover in newspaper, articles and in vast sources from the Internet is that in different historical events where desperate people come up with unique ways of political and religious activism relating to their particular events which at the end strengthen the higher notion of democracy. Still, the challenge remains to compose these issues in the same visual language which each individual region traditionally represent and feel the freedom to invent themselves as a young concerned artist.
1.Anushri Savanth, Age-15. Grade-10, School-Inventure Academy
Note Fom The Student-
I have taken Kalamkari as my technique to illustrate the theme ‘’Together towards tomorrow. One of the main challenges that the Kalamkari artist face is the lack of water. The cotton cloth for the Kalamkari work needs to be pre-treated with water. Further , it needs to be soaked between paint sessions. The severe water scarcity has affected the lives of these artists.
In this painting, water takes on the form of beautiful, jewellery embellished woman. She is being trailed by a group of villagers, some being the very artisans who practice Kalamkari. Some attempt to collect her water droplets while others chase after her, demanding water on behalf of their village. They work together, sharing their ladders, pots and bulls for one unified cause to make tomorrow better. I used fabric paints for this painting as the vibrant colour range and consistency reminds me of original Kalamkari work.
2.Gauri Manoj Age-17 Grade-12 School- Inventure Academy
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The style of Kerala Mural painting is typically utilized to represent mythological stories on temple walls, keeping with this theme, I have crafted a fictional story about the Indian mythological figure, Hanuman. My piece depicts Hanuman and the boys escape from an evil entity that represents the environmental crisis in Kerala with flood all around the region in 2018. My work depicts Hanuman’s achievement and also their flight –together towards tomorrow that hope of a better tomorrow is not yet lost.
3.Madumitta Janet Age-15 Grade-10 School-Inventure Academy
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The Chipko Movement is a forest conservation movement where people embraced the tree to prevent them from being cut. In combination with the Chipko Movement, in Mumbai in the year 2015 environmentalist have begun a movement in which protesters hug the trees to protect over 3000 trees in the Aarey Colony from being cut down to make way for a Mumbai metro.
I have taken Warli art because it is a native art form of Maharastra and illustrate the situation that happened in Mumbai,2015 and in Uttarakhand ,1973.
In my art work the Authority is characterized by a large man with and an axe making it slightly ironic that the axe made of wood is going to cut down the trees. The women although being small in comparison with the authority contributed in a large scale thus trying to stop the deforestation.
4.Ananya Dharmaraj Age-16 Grade-11 School-Inventure Academy
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Phad painting, native to Gujrat is one of the few form that has survived. It is both colourful and incredibly descriptive. The use of vibrant natural colour and bold figures brings out the importance of the artwork.
This work signifies ‘Together Towards Tomorrow’-People of Gujrat moving to a greener cleaner future. Gujrat is facing water crisis currently and hence, this also capture the dreamy rejuvenating of the people of this state.
5.Yash Jalan ,Age-17 Grade-12 School-Inventure Academy
Note Fom The Student-
I have used the Warli art form from Maharashtra to portray the ‘Narmada bachao andolan’. This is a tribal movement in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh which is aimed at saving the Narmada River. The river is essential to the survival of these tribes as it is their only source of water. Men and women from various tribes joined hands and stood on the banks of the Narmada river , with signs and slogans, to spread awareness and prevent further damage.
7.Vaishali Senthil Age-16 years Grade-11 school-Inventure Academy.
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70% of Indian population is rural population and women empower have taken Madhubani art style as my technique to illustrate the generalised need of women empowerment in rural India.
6.Sahil Ashar Age-16 Grade-11 School-Inventure Academy.
The art work portray the unity that should be prevalent between nature and human and unity among human races .I used Madhubani art style as a technique to narrate my thought of abolishing the differences gets created from the differences of skin colour. As because Madhubani style has a tradition of using bold colour it helped me to explain that there should is no discrimination with difference in skin colour.
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